OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 14:9

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Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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Verse 9. Hell is personified, deriding the Chaldee monarch, Baltassar, who perished the very night after he had profaned the sacred vessels. Daniel 5:3. He probably received only the burial of an ass. verse 11. 19. Calmet.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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